Planning a Virtual infrastructure: The process of planning and deploying virtualisation can be challenging, but the benefits of migration can …
Getting to grips with DCA
Automation power: Data centre automation (DCA) solutions allow IT organisations to automate a variety of workflows that support configuration and …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Khaled Kefel
Khaled is responsible for promotion, awareness and sales of BlackBerry through wireless carriers in the region. He is responsible for …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker : Floor Bleeker
Floor Bleeker is serving as the Group Director of Business Solutions for the Jumeirah Group. In his current position, reporting …
GITEX Technology Week 2008 update
GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK CONFERENCE 2008 UPDATE GITEX Technology Week Global Conference – Register here GITEX Technology …
10 IDC tech predictions 2010
1. Next year will be the year of the private cloud. Most IT managers have already begun to offer service-oriented …
Being counterintuitive
In a world where most people use computers at home, where the Internet is a basic medium for everyone and …
ERP – the time is right
While the global economic problems of 2009 probably forced some IT managers to stretch the shelf-life of their ERP systems …
It's not them, it's you
Not surprisingly, most of our transgressions find their foundation in the classics: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. …
The supercomputer on your desktop
One reason is that processing that took an hour on a standard PC about eight years ago now takes six …
Paying the price
Servers’ hard disk access times have not kept up with the increasing speed of their CPUs, and the resulting lags …
Entry and exit
Identity management (IDM) is no longer what it used to be. From the most basic access management IDM has become …
Solving the puzzle
There is no doubt that business process management (BPM), when bring right, can bring immense benefits to an organisation. “Business …
Forming links
It is a well documented fact that the Middle East remains a largely IT hardware market to date. As the …
The payback from virtualisation
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
Stuck with a duopoly
Is the middleware market becoming a duopoly, with users locked in to either Oracle or IBM? Loosely defined as software …
IT sins to avoid
Not surprisingly, most of our transgressions find their foundation in the classics: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. …
Striking back
It can’t be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft’s chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill …
A line of vision
IF THERE IS ONE THING THAT DR AISHA Butti Bin Bishr, former director of corporate excellence at The Executive Council …
Measure for measure
Information security metrics have a bad rep. Mention metrics to a CISO and immediately his thoughts may well turn to …